PROFESSIONAL
Co-founder of AND 1, an over $200 Million dollar global basketball footwear and apparel company.
COO for 3 years.
Built and managed our footwear launch from $0 to over $200,000,000 US in annual sales.
Sold the company in 2005.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Economics from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania (1993).
Concentration in finance. Summa cum laude.
Masters in developmental psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (2008).
MFA in screenwriting / directing from the University of Southern California (2011).

PERSONAL
Conversant in Mandarin Chinese.
Married to an amazing woman and trying to invest as much time as I can with our two amazing little girls, ages 8 and 5.
Currently living in Los Angeles, CA.
Currently build trading systems, advise start-ups, write screenplays and chase my kids.
Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/tomaustin/

Investment Style

1. Focus on process, not outcomes.
2. Always seek to have the odds in my favor.
3. Systematic trader who likes a basket of low-ish correlation models I have tested the heck out of to mitigate the odds of ‘big drawdowns.’
4. Stay humble. Learn from mistakes and successes.
5. Markets are highly efficient overall but small pockets of inefficiency exist.
6. Diversify as much as possible across strategies and don’t invest more than 5-10% in any 1 idea.